How Can Football Shirts Explain Money, Power and Politics?

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🗓️ 21 July 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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In today’s episode, journalist and author Joey D'Urso joins us to discuss the themes of his new book More Than A Shirt: How Football Shirts Explain Global Politics, Money and Power. D'Urso travelled across the globe from Birmingham to Belgrade and Medellin and Mumbai, to uncover how the colours, crests and sponsors of football teams reflect and good and the bad of of the places they represent. He was joined in conversation by Conor Boyle, Head of Programming at Intelligence Squared. (edited) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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